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Alex Morgan Excluded from US Women's Soccer Team for Olympics
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6/27/2024
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I want to focus now and move ahead to this big story that broke yesterday with the Olympics
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coming up, because I think this probably surprised some people, and Mike, you're obviously more
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familiar with this than people that follow soccer very closely, but when you associate
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women's soccer, you think of Alex Morgan almost first, and the announcement was made yesterday
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that for the first time since 2008, she is not going to participate on the U.S. women's
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team.
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Now, you know, for me, I did some research here, and again, not being as completely familiar
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with this, I really didn't feel like I came up with a good answer for why that she's not
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on this.
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You know, some injury speculation, some age speculation as well, nothing that I read led
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me to believe that there's a clear answer here.
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Well, I honestly, Craig, I think the first answer, I almost wish that this were a World
00:53
Cup, because we would know, what exactly does Emma Hayes have in mind?
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She was constricted.
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She's the new coach for the U.S. women's national team, came to the United States earlier in
01:05
a career, and now is coming back as the champion of England's women's Super League with Chelsea,
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considered to be one of the great tactical coaches in soccer, and in this case, she only
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has 18 players available to her.
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That's a really limited roster, and so first off, there's just the numerical factor, and
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then there's the factor that Alex is a center forward.
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She doesn't do anything else.
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Most of the forwards that were chosen for this team are very versatile.
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Kind of lacks a center forward unless they play Katarina Macario there, which they may,
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but the fact that they decided to use a lot of versatile players to cover for the fact
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that they're only allowed 18 really put Alex in a tough spot.
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I would be very curious, if this were a 23-player roster, how would it have gone?
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Would she have made it?
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I really wish I could get an answer to that, but obviously, it's all suppositional.
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